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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tetsuo Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Shigenobu Kasuya, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 18 ; 382 51 ;
Abstract
The disclosure describes a character recognition apparatus comprising a scanner for optically scanning a prescribed area and outputting a scanned signal, a binary processing circuit for receiving the scanned signal and producing a plurality of binary signals, a counting mechanism for counting black meshes in the scanned area, a counting mechanism for counting insulated meshes, a mechanism for calculating the ratio of the number of black meshes and the number of insulated meshes, and a mechanism for selecting one optimum binary signal from the plurality of binary signals on the basis of a comparison of the ratios.